Tomb-sweeping, honoring ancestors, trekking, kite-flying, and making Qingming Festival food are all part of the Qingming Festival.

1,Tomb Sweeping

Ching Ming Festival is a traditional festival to pay tribute to ancestors and sweep tombs. People will go to their ancestors' graves to clean up the leftover flowers and leaves, burn incense, wipe the tombstones, and offer sacrifices, such as flowers, joss sticks, paper money, and so on. This is to show their respect and remembrance of their ancestors, as well as to pass on the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation.

2. Offerings to the ancestors

During the Ching Ming Festival, people make offerings to their ancestors to express their thoughts and condolences. Offerings include joss sticks and candles, paper money, flowers and fruits, etc. People will prepare these offerings before the festival, and then burn incense and offerings on the graveyard to pray for the ancestors to bless their families with peace and health.

3, trekking

Trekking is also one of the activities often found in the Qingming Festival, because at this time the grass has grown and everything is revived, it is a good time for trekking. Especially some graves are usually located in the mountains at this time of the year, when you go to the ancestors to sweep the grave, you can also enjoy the surrounding scenery.

4, kite flying

Previously, ancient people especially like to fly kites during the Qingming Festival, which is because of the symbolism of eliminating the pain. When flying kites, people would usually write the diseases suffered by sick people on top of the kites, and when the kites flew into the sky, they would cut the kites, which signified that the sick people's diseases would be far away like the kites.

5, make Qingming Festival food

There are some traditional foods for Qingming Festival, such as green dumplings, flower cakes and Qingming fruit. People can make these foods at home or buy ready-made foods to celebrate the festival.